Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

by Stephen Hinshaw
Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

by Stephen Hinshaw

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Overview

WINNER: Best Autobiography/Memoir, 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest

Glenn Close says:
"Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I’ve read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw’s story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It’s a masterpiece."

A deeply personal memoir calling for an end to the dark shaming of mental illness

Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for 18 years within his family—that his father’s mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, during Hinshaw’s first spring break from college, he knew his life would change forever.

Hinshaw calls this revelation his “psychological birth.” After years of experiencing the ups and downs of his father’s illness without knowing it existed, Hinshaw began to piece together the silent, often terrifying history of his father’s life—in great contrast to his father’s presence and love during periods of wellness. This exploration led to larger discoveries about the family saga, to Hinshaw’s correctly diagnosing his father with bipolar disorder, and to his full-fledged career as a clinical and developmental psychologist and professor.

In Another Kind of Madness, Hinshaw explores the burden of living in a family “loaded” with mental illness and debunks the stigma behind it. He explains that in today’s society, mental health problems still receive utter castigation—too often resulting in the loss of fundamental rights, including the inability to vote or run for office or automatic relinquishment of child custody. Through a poignant and moving family narrative, interlaced with shocking facts about how America and the world still view mental health conditions well into in the 21st century, Another Kind of Madness is a passionate call to arms regarding the importance of destigmatizing mental illness.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250213280
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/23/2019
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 511,484
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 4.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Stephen Hinshaw is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and of psychiatry at UC San Francisco. He has authored 350 scientific publications plus The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change (Oxford, 2007), the first U.S. book on mental illness stigma. His internationally renowned research has been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He lives in Berkeley, CA.

Table of Contents

Prefac ix

Introduction 1

1 Sunday Dinner at the Willard 9

2 Out in California 26

3 The Midnight Drive 44

4 The View from Right Field 65

5 Miracles of Modern Medicine 81

6 The CBS Evening News 99

7 New England 123

8 The Iron Suit 141

9 Dawn 155

10 The Thought Experiment 177

11 A Deeper Layer 196

12 Progressive Decline 209

13 The End and the Beginning 228

14 The Rest of My Life 243

Epilogue 259

Acknowledgments 265

Index of Medical Terms 269

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